Pettis County, MO Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,040 ft 315 m920 ft 280 m870 ft 265 m760 ft 230 m650 ft 195 m590 ft 180 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- County area
- Fades everything outside the official county boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Pettis County averages about 830 ft (255 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 590 ft on the northeast side to 1,040 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
830 ft 255 m
all land inside the county
Highest
1,040 ft 315 m
on the south side
Lowest
590 ft 180 m
on the northeast side
Pettis County spans about 450 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 830 ft255 m |
| Highest point Inside the county, on the south side | 1,040 ft315 m |
| Lowest point Inside the county, on the northeast side | 590 ft180 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
28 mi south to north through Sedalia.
Topographic Map
- Location
- County in Missouri, United States
- Population
- 43,791 2024 est.
- Land area
- 682.2 sq mi + 4.0 sq mi water
- Density
- 64 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform regions
- Central Lowland 75%, Ozark Plateaus 25%
- Drains to
- Gulf of America
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring counties sharing a border, by average
- Morgan County890 ft
- Benton County870 ft
- Pettis County830 ft
- Johnson County830 ft
- Henry County800 ft
- Lafayette County800 ft
- Cooper County740 ft
- Saline County720 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Counties in Missouri60th highest of 114
- Counties in the United States1,748th highest of 3,151
All 7 towns in Pettis County by typical elevation
- Green Ridge910 ft
- Windsor partly880 ft
- Sedalia880 ft
- Smithton870 ft
- La Monte850 ft
- Hughesville820 ft
- Houstonia760 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census county boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring counties and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the county with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the county.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.